TRG gives Square Enix's presence at E3 an 8/10 - In the aftermath of a vast restructuring, Square Enix had been relatively silent regarding its current projects. Bringing Tetsuya Nomura to Los Angeles signified a return to its roots, placing him at the helm, once again, of their most popular franchises in Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. His presence alone was enough to raise eyebrows beyond the impressions that all of their games left onlookers and E3 attendees.
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
Square-Enix is pretty much a dead company at this point. Their FF games (if you would even call them that) are terrible. Even their newest FF13 games were bad and FF15 will be even worse. It's nothing but generic action games from them and linear hallways on top of that. All that's left for them is to ruin more older franchises like they did with Tomb Raider (I'm sure their influence had something to do with it being nothing like a Tomb Raider game at all as that's what comes across in their "Final Fantasy" games.
Square-Enix will never be even half as good as Squaresoft. All of the good people left a long time ago anyway.
They are not dead at all, in fact they have some great IPs (thanks to Eidos) like Deus Ex
Their games have become more "Americanized" is all.
See this is the argument I CONSTANTLY get into with people. Everyone verbally maligns FF13 but it's a GREAT game and 13-2 is a pretty good followup. It's not that it's Americanized or a BAD game...it's evolved and the combat is truly deep an engaging, as is the storyline. Even FF12 caught alot of flak but it;;s a SUPERB video game. I understand the gripes associated with those games but I don't understand the utter hatred and misinformed "bad game" comments. You may not have lucked them but MILLIONS did, and some of us put FF12 and 13 in our top 3 or 4 EVER.
Square is not a dead company, far from it. THey are more profitable and put out more games than they have had. Quantity doesn't necessarily mean quality but few new games they put out (not spin-offs, mind you) are bad games. On the contrary.
We'll agree to disagree. But Square knows how to make a game. And I respect the hell out of them for never making a cookie cutter rendition of a popular genre. THey may be eclectic, but far from terrible.